Long Buckby railway station

Long Buckby railway station is a small railway station that serves the village of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, England. The station is 15 km (9½ miles) north west of Northampton.

The station is served by London Midland services to Birmingham New Street and Northampton, on the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line. For inter-city services (Virgin Trains), passengers should change at Rugby, the next station westbound.

Long Buckby is the nearest station to the town of Daventry, about 7.5 km (4.7 mi) away.

The station was one of a number built on the Northampton-Rugby stretch in the 19th century. All the others were closed in the 1960s.

Services

There are 2 trains per hour each way on the London Midland service between Northampton and Birmingham New Street. Every other service runs to / from London Euston. As of 2007^[update], the station has a part-time ticket office.

On Sundays the station is served hourly by the Birmingham to Northampton Service although it does not run beyond Northampton. It is also served by an hourly London Euston to Rugby fast London Midland service. Every 2 hours this service runs to Crewe railway station via Tamworth and Stoke on Trent. (This service runs hourly Monday - Saturday but does not call at Long Buckby.)

Other

Long Buckby station had a brief moment of fame in 1997 when, as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the train. Prince Charles and his sons took a different route to Althorp using Brington Road as the rest of the Royal Family and guests drove through the village of Long Buckby leaving the village via East Street to follow the main road to Northampton on which Althorp lies.

External links

• Train times and station information for Long Buckby railway station from National Rail